Trauma-Informed Mindfulness TrainingCourse Content

Please note that there is always some variation in material covered, based on the existing experience and interests of participants in attendance. The length of the training varies between 20 and 25 hours, depending on the amount of time available at each venue, and the time the group votes to wrap up on the final day.

What is Trauma-Informed Mindfulness?

Core philosophy, goals and practice principles grounded in the literature on trauma-informed care, somatics and mindfulness

Mindfulness and the tri-phasic model of trauma treatment

Considerations and caveats with different styles of meditation

Scope of practice considerations

Recognizing that trauma is in every meditation class

What TIM is and is not

The Transcendence Trap

Adverse effects of meditation and common pitfalls of contemplative practices

Contraindications of mindfulness and meditation

Foundations of Trauma and Attachment

The neurobiology and psychophysiology of trauma and attachment

Frameworks for understanding stress and dysregulation

Understanding dysregulation (hyper- and hypo-arousal)

Role of addictions and management strategies

Dissociation, spiritual bypassing and forced forgiveness

“Biological completion”, complex syndromes and other themes

The activation cycle of social engagement strategies, orienting, fight/flight, freeze/collapse and discharge/deactivation